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Originally Posted by pabscars
It would be easy for me to jump all over this and blame Vm as being crap for gaming but that isnt always the case (see above) but as soon as you mentioned (lag Ops) I thought it might not be all Vm's fault after all.
Firstly I play Black ops 2 a lot (stopped at 5th prestige) only because Black Ops 1 via xbox or PS3 is so laggy I point blank refuse to waste another minute with this reched game. I moved away from VM to Sky for gaming reasons mostly and I now have a pretty much perfect line for gaming, but and it's a pretty massive but, Black Ops 1 and 2 have to be the worst FPS game ive played from a lag perspective, and it can manifest itself in many ways.
By far the worst for me is host lag, thats when you pull host at the start of the game and suddenly you struggle like mad to get a kill, years ago on games like COD 4 when you got selected as host you got a host advantage and could seriously kick ass.
However with the more modern equivelant like Black Ops 2 they build in an element of lag to prevent the host from having the advantage, sometimes (most times for me) If I pull host the game plays like crap, so bad sometimes I rage quit and when I do back out of the game it comes up with the message about changing host, which proves my argument (in my eyes at least).
So cutting through all the usual possibilities, like wireless or wired, port forwarding blah blah blah, I would seriously try a different game and see if you experience the same issues whilst playing it.
I know it sounds like I hate Black Ops, but I dont, some games I can have great fun on, others suck major ass, its just the way the game is managing your connection at that particular point in time, or the host has a poor connection, or host lag.
These points may be contrevertial to some but Ive been playing FPS games for ever and you get to know how a game should play and when it's not quite right, even tonight I played a few games on my xbox and got elements of lag in 2 out of 3 games, so I back out and low and behold I'm host again.
Of course it may be possible your on a bad part of VM's network and changing to a higher speed may improve things, the only real proof is by giving it a go and seeing for yourself.
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Agree with this. i play black ops alot, host sucks major.
Upload speed is important, and ping (in my humble opinion),
But as said above, hosting tends to be reason for lag (I will often quit game, if I spot my connection lagging, and 9 times out of 10, I was hosting the game)